News/events moderation policy

[Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>]

A while back we discussed a new policy for approval of news and events 
on the website and -announce, which Josh drafted on 
http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/NewsEventsApproval

I have changed two things after rereading this morning:

- Allow 'family' projects to announce any production releases.

  Justification:

   - We have never prevented them doing so and never had any volume 
related problems as a result.

   - Postgres users should be made aware of patch releases of important 
projects like Slony, pgAdmin, phpPgAdmin, the drivers etc. without there 
having to be a serious security issue, or having to subscribe to half a 
dozen or more different lists/rss feeds etc.

- Allow companies to post more than one training event per month.

  Justification:

   - The homepage of the website now summarises events in a 
volume-indepent manner to avoid favouring any one company.

   - We should provide details of all training events to our users 
(through the events directory page) for their benefit, and to illustrate 
the popularity of PostgreSQL.


Unless there are any objections to these changes, or other aspects of 
the policy, I propose we start applying it to all new submissions from 
Monday 3rd December.

Anyone disagree?

Regards, Dave